Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With costs unofficially estimated at up to £200,000 , the award seemed likely to force the closure of the magazine , which has built a reputation for trendiness and a circulation of 73,000 , selling mainly to people in their 20s . |
| 2 | Is he dramatising all this a bit , for sympathy and a bed for the night , or is this the normal way of the Gael ? |
| 3 | At least when the financial stress is alleviated , they can get on then with going to the treatment for leukaemia or a blood disorder , whether it 's chemotherapy , radiotherapy whatever . |
| 4 | This is not a competition for the Nobel prize for literature but a protection against potential accusations of lack of clarity . |
| 5 | As a white South African , he writes , ‘ One of the most winning qualities of my black countrymen is that they have an instinct for faith and a preparedness to follow and to be truly led . |
| 6 | She has been signed up as front-page girl for Vogue and a host of other glitzy US fashion magazines . |
| 7 | Two of my constituents were awarded by the courts compensation for damage that a burglar had done in their house . |
| 8 | Company lawyers are not keen on this very good scheme because where damage or loss is suffered by a third party , as for instance where a brake failure results in damage to an airport building , the dissemination of details of the circumstances in which it happened outside the company could prejudice the defence they are going to put up for their airline when the airport puts in a claim for damages . |
| 9 | Those words apply , no doubt , to suspensions which are inflicted by way of punishment : as for instance when a member of the Bar is suspended from practice for six months , or when a solicitor is suspended from practice . |
| 10 | Again , the Zuwaya did not base their genealogy solely on brotherhood : some groups were written in , recruited for instance when a group had insufficient members by natural means ; some were brought in by marriage ; one major section ( Muftah ) was related as half-brothers ( through their mother ) to Shuaghr , who were related as half-brothers ( through their father ) to the other sections of the Zuwaya . |
| 11 | Orders for payment after a summons jumped by nearly half to 2,355,174 . |
| 12 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |
| 13 | The Board gave both a secure market for milk and a measure of financial security to the farmers . |
| 14 | As a result , at the back of people 's minds there is frequently the notion nowadays that since ‘ we ’ are now net importers of manufactured goods , ‘ we ’ are not able to compete successfully in the international market for manufactured goods , so the country must be impoverished and only able to avoid facing up to this through luck or a trick . |
| 15 | If you have been asked to , observe the contents of pan and report if there is anything unusual , such as blood or a change of colour . |
| 16 | Then , for entrance or a parade , you have them carry a melon and a cauliflower to make Melancholy . |
| 17 | This policy should also include procedures for action when a neonate is discovered missing . |
| 18 | Prominence , which is the basis for our sense of the particularity of a style , also provides the condition for recognition that a style is being used for a particular literary end : that it has a " value in the game " . |
| 19 | It is a novelist 's trick , useful for recognition when a character is used in a series of stones : it is also properly matched to the portrait of a youth who is intelligent but not physically impressive . |
| 20 | The death penalty was retained for repeated murders , while a new defence of diminished responsibility , imported from Scotland , allowed a charge of manslaughter to be substituted for murder if a defendant ‘ was suffering from such abnormality of mind … as substantially impaired his mental responsibility for his acts … ‘ . |
| 21 | The same flair for characterisation and a rapport between voice and orchestra , were evident in Amalia 's ‘ Tu del mio Carlo al seno ’ from Verdi 's I Masnadieri . |
| 22 | This circumstance encourages me to hope that you may , if you have any opening for such a youth , be willing to take George , who is exceedingly desirous of obtaining the situation — or indeed any situation which through industry and a desire of improvement may hereafter insure a creditable independence ; but , above all things he seems to wish that it may be possible for you to take him into a situation similar to that which was offered to his Brother . |
| 23 | I can only see myself as a conversation piece , worth more as gossip than a fuck . |
| 24 | You will also be required to see to the boiling of water for tea when a tea-meeting is held and the washing up of the delf , etc , afterwards . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Pop-ins ’ are just for tea and a chat . |
| 26 | Only Lori could act as if she were meeting a bosom friend for tea and a chat , when the reality was something light-years removed . |
| 27 | There is a built-in assumption that memory is about association and a removal of any possibility of demonstrating that memory might be dependent on meaning . |
| 28 | Iraq 's Feb. 15 offer was hailed by Gorbachev 's spokesman Vitaly Ignatenko as further cause for optimism that a settlement would be found . |
| 29 | Peter Donald , the Scottish League secretary , said there had to be grounds for optimism that a solution within the governing body 's framework was now attainable . |
| 30 | But , within a family , it is much less common for a woman to be listed as ratepayer than a man . |